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When Deming Goes to School

Deming Institute

There is a big shift in thinking from thinking that a manager must motivate people to thinking a manager needs to remove the barriers to people’s intrinsic motivation (this of course was explained by Douglas McGregor in 1960 with theory x and theory y thinking in his book The Human Side of Enterprise).

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leadership and management models download- page 2a

Rapid BI

This set can be used by managers, leaders, trainers, educators and students to help communicate key points, theories and ideas to others. McGregor Theory X Y. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets. A Ready to use Consultant's Toolkit if you like. Managing Risk.

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The “String” Theory of Systems Management in Schools

Deming Institute

Anyone who takes a systems perspective with regard to educational leadership likely understands and appreciates the power of these words. In our work as professors in Drake University’s educational leadership program, many of our graduate students communicate a strong desire to serve and be recognized as “instructional leaders.”

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

There’s been a fair amount of research in this area, with academics discovering that these individual theories change over time in response to experience, education, and social influences and that they can be shaped by our outside beliefs, values, and personality traits.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). Threats to privacy must be averted by appropriate regulation.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

While schools dedicated specifically to business had been offering classes throughout the 1800s in Europe, the economic juggernaut US gained its first institution of higher education in management with the 1881 founding of the Wharton School. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.